Research

Project publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Peer-reviewed book chapters

Published research posters / Book of Abstracts

  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Poster of the MSCA EU H-2020 ‘NAVSHEN’ project for the Book of Abstracts of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Annual Conference 2021 ‘Research in Times of Crisis’, Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts Poster Section, p. 76.

Preliminary project publications

Project research activities

Convened international research conferences

  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Co-Convenor and Coordinator of the International Conference "Mobility and Human Rights in European Integration: Perspectives from the Past", European Studies Center (ESC) – Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence of the (JMEUCE) at the University of Pittsburgh, 22 April, 2021.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Convenor and Chair of the International Workshop "The Transatlantic Relation from 2021: Where do we go from here?", as Chair of the North America Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA-NA). Speakers: Prof. Garret Martin, Sr. Professorial Lecturer at the School of International Service of the American University (AU); Prof. Michael J. Williams, Associate Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs at Syracuse University and Prof. Billy Davies, Associate Professor at the Department of Justice, Law & Criminology of the American University (AU), 18 March, 2021. 

Chair and discussant in international research conference panels and lectures

  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Chair and Moderator of the Panel ‘Governing European Education, Twenty-Eighth International Conference of Europeanists ‘The Environment of Democracy’, organized by the Council for European Studies (CES) at the ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 20/06/2022. 
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Chair of the Panel "When Europe is Constructed from its Outside and Peripheries", CES 27th International Conference of Europeanists ‘Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias’ 2021, Council for European Studies (CES) at Columbia University, 21 – 25 June, 2021.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Co-Chair (with Randall Halle, ‘Klaus W. Jonas’ Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh) and Discussant of the panel "Formation of Europe: Borders", CES 27th International Conference of Europeanists ‘Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias 2021, Council for European Studies (CES) at Columbia University, 21 – 25 June, 2021.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Co-Convenor and Co-Chair of the panel "Science and Arts: Dialogues between the languages of the mind", 2021 International Conference of Young Scientists and Global Young Academy (GYA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the German Academy of Sciences ‘Leopoldina’, 3 June, 2021.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Discussant of the paper ‘Recognition through Dialogue: How Transatlantic Relations Anchor the EU's Identity’, EU Jean Monnet "Network on Research and Teaching in EU Foreign Affairs" (NORTIA) project Research Days 2020, 7 – 8 December, 2020.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Discussant of the Film Screening and Round-Table on "The Silence of Others" at the European Studies Center (ESC) – Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence (JMEUCE) of the University of Pittsburgh, within the program ‘2020 European Studies Center's (ESC) Year of Memory and Politics Series’ at the University of Pittsburgh, 2 April, 2020.
    Discussion by Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Senior Global Fellow at the European Studies Center (ESC) of the University of Pittsburgh. Event chaired by Prof. Jae-Jae Spoon, Director of the European Studies Center (ESC) at the University of Pittsburgh.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Discussant of the paper ‘No Culture – No EUrope: The Initiative ‘Soul for Europe’ and the Politics of Affect’, Critical European Culture Studies (CECS) Workshop 2019 "The Critical Methods of European Culture Studies", University of Pittsburgh, 6 – 7 September, 2019.

Selected speaker at international research conferences and invited lectures

  • Blanco Sío-López, C.,  ‘Fronteras y Derechos de Movilidad Humana: Los legados históricos de la construcción de una libre circulación de personas en la UE’, II Jornada de la Academia Joven de España (AJE) Cruzando Fronteras: Futuro de la Ciencia, la Cultura y el Conocimiento, Academia Joven de España (AJE) y Centro de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, 28 October, 2022.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C.,  Specialisation summer course / Curso de especialización del CSIC: ‘Cómo realizar una propuesta de investigación exitosa como IP’, ‘La carrera investigadora: de los inicios a la consolidación’, Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, 27 October, 2022.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Travelling Inwards: Wellbeing agency as a shifting priority for pandemic-impacted Young researchers’, ReMO COST Action, EU Horizon 2020, 1st Conference of the Researcher Mental Health Observatory ‘Bridging Research and Practice in Fostering Healthy Academic Workplaces, ReMO COST Action CA19117 and Central European University (CEU), Budapest, 25 August, 2022.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Empowering Historical Legacies of Human Mobility Rights: discursive uses of crises in the building of the EU’s free movement of persons’, RE: MIGRATION – New perspectives on movement, research, and society, The 21st Nordic Migration Research (NMR) conference, Session: ‘Histories of Refugeedom’, Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen, 1 August, 2022.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Kant’s “Perpetual Peace”’ and the Building of a European Integration Process: Blueprints for an Alternate Future’, International Conference on the Future of Peace – The Role of the Academic Community in the Promotion of Peace, Inter University Centre (IUC) Dubrovnik, Croatian Association of the Club of Rome and Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia, 03 August, 2022.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘The Future that Once Was: 1989 and the Eastward Enlargement of the European Union’, Temporalities in History, Association for Global Political Thought (AGPT), Invited Lecturer, Harvard University, 29 July, 2022.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Salvador de Madariaga and the ‘Solidarity of Being’: Echoes of an imagined ‘free movement of persons’ from interwar Europe’, XIII Annual Conference of the Research Network on the History of the Idea of Europe: Rethinking Liberal Europe. Ideas of Europe and Notions of Freedom between 1848 and 1945, Collegio Carlo Alberto (CCA); Fondazione Luigi Einaudi onlus Turin; Stiftung Reichspräsident-Friedrich-Ebert-Gedenkstätte, Heidelberg; Institute for the Study of Ideas of Europe, University of East Anglia, CCA in Torino, 01 July, 2022.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Instilling the Future: Human mobility rights temporalities correlating the EU's Eastward Enlargement and the Free Movement of Persons in the nineties’, 19th IMISCOE (International Migration Research Network) Annual Conference: Migration and Time: Temporalities of Mobility, Governance, and Resistance, Oslo Metropolitan University, 30 June, 2022.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘From Asymmetry to Dialogue? The Conceptual Evolution of the EU Development and Environment Sustainability Agendas’, Twenty-Eighth International Conference of EuropeanistsThe Environment of Democracy, Council for European Studies (CES) and ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 29 June, 2022.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Specialised summer course / Curso especializado impartido: ‘Diálogos y Transferencias: El rescate (po)ético-práctico de las Humanidades Digitales’, Curso de verano: La inteligencia humana al rescate de la inteligencia artificial, DSLAB-URJC, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, 27 June, 2022.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Keynote Speaker, ‘Striking a balance that is already there: Knowing, feeling and the ‘poetry of science’, Session: ‘How much is Creativity valued in your area of Science’, 2022 International Conference and Annual General Meeting of the Global Young Academy (GYA) ‘Harmonising Reason with Sensibility’, Global Young Academy (GYA), Young Academy of Japan, Kyushu University and the Science Council of Japan (SCJ), Fukuoka, Japan, 15 June, 2022.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Mirrors and Triggers: Historical approaches to printed press cartoons on the COVID-19 pandemic’, Session: ‘Visual Semantics in History’, 4th National Conference of the Italian Association of Public History (AIPH), Italian Association of Public History (AIPH), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Museo del 900 (M9), Venice, 27 May, 2022.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Charting the Intangible: Bridging Temporalities and Human Mobility Rights in Contemporary History’, Young Academy of Europe (YAE) 10-Year Anniversary Seminar Series, Young Academy of Europe (YAE), 27 April, 2022.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Emotions as triggers to uphold Human Mobility Rights: Discursive uses of crises in the building of the EU’s Free Movement of Persons’, as part of the panel 'Emotions and norms in EU crisis diplomacy’, European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions of Workshops 2022, University of Edinburgh and European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), 19 April, 2022.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., Speaker at the panel ‘After the MSCA fellowship – What’s Next?’, Presentation: ‘Future Pathways: Building the Present’, 2022 Marie Curie Alumni Association Conference and General AssemblySustainability and the Post-Pandemic Workplace’, Lisbon, 27 March, 2022.
  • 51. BLANCO SÍO-LÓPEZ, Cristina, ‘Rediscovering Empowering Historical Legacies on the EU’s Free Movement of Persons, 1985-2015’, Invited Lecture, ‘Transformative Seminar’, Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), University of Vienna, 18 November, 2021.

Preliminary research activities 

  • Transient Traces? Lessons from EC/EU Enlargements and the Schengen Area to address the Global Governance Challenges of Multiculturalism’, 'The Multicultural Question in a Mobile World', European University Institute (EUI), Florence, 8 April 2016.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘ Dialogues beyond the ‘Fortress Europe’: A Social-Network Approach to the Genesis and Evolution of the ‘Free Circulation’ Concept through EP Schengen Area Debates’, 2015 IHC/FCSH-UNL International Conference 'Schengen: People, Borders and Mobility', New University of Lisbon (NOVA), 16 June 2015.
  • Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘EC Migrants' Integration Measures and Political Culture Spillover in the midst of the Community's Southern and Eastern Enlargements’, International Conference ‘Peoples and borders: Seventy years of movement of persons in Europe, from Europe, to Europe (1945-2015), EU Liaison Committee of Historians, University of Padova, 6 November 2014.